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flogging
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flogging
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lashing |
| Synonyms: | beating, caning, flagellation, flailing, horsewhipping, thrashing, whipping |
| Main Entry: | whipping |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beating |
| Synonyms: | caning, flogging, licking, pasting, pounding, pummeling, punishment, spanking, tanning, thrashing, trouncing, walloping |
| Main Entry: | threshing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beating |
| Synonyms: | drubbing, flogging, thrashing, trouncing, whipping |
| Main Entry: | trimming |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defeat |
| Synonyms: | beating, drubbing, flogging, licking, rout, thrashing, whipping |
| Antonyms: | achievement, success, triumph, victory |
| Main Entry: | corporal punishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical punishment |
| Synonyms: | beating, flagellation, flogging, paddling, spanking, whipping |
| Notes: | corporal punishment, from Latin corpus 'body,' means 'bodily'; capital punishment originally involved losing one's head, from Latin capit- 'head' |
| Main Entry: | licking |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beating |
| Synonyms: | annihilation, bashing, defeat, drubbing, flogging, lashing, thrashing, whipping |
| Main Entry: | thrashing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beating |
| Synonyms: | annihilation, bashing, defeat, drubbing, flogging, hiding, lashing, rout, shellacking, slaughter, trouncing, whipping |
| Main Entry: | beat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | injure by striking |
| Synonyms: | bang, bash, bat, batter, belt, box, break, bruise, buffet, cane, castigate, clout, club, collide, crush, cudgel, drub, flagellate, flail, flog, hammer, hit, knock, lambaste*, lash, lick*, maltreat, mash, maul, pelt, pound, pummel, punch, punish, ram, rap, slap, slug, smack, spank, strike, swat, thrash, thresh, thump, thwack, trounce, wallop, whale, whip |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, guard, help, protect |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | castigate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | criticize severely |
| Synonyms: | baste, bawl out, beat, berate, blister, cane, censure, chasten, chastise, chew out, come down on, correct, criticize, discipline, drag over the coals, dress down, drub, excoriate, flay, flog, jump down one's throat, lambaste, lash, lay out, lean on, penalize, pummel, punish, rail, rate, read the riot act, ream, rebuke, reprimand, scarify, scathe, scold, scorch, scourge, thrash, tongue-lash, upbraid, whip |
| Antonyms: | compliment, laud, praise |
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